Parcel-post weighing-scale.



et JUSTICE, PARCEL POST'WEIGHING SCALE.

y APPLICATION FILED IULY HL i914. f I 1,135,812. Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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. STATES Geenen-Is. cosmos, or RALEIGH, Noma CAROLINA.

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PARCEL-POST WEIGHINGSCLE.

Tozll who@ it may concern e,it known that 1,-'Gnoncn B.' JUSTICE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Raleigh, in the county of ,'Wake and State of vNorth Carolina, have made an Improved Parcel-Post Weighing-Scale, of which the 'following is a specification.

k.My invention is an improvement in weigh- 1n" balance scales of a known type.

he improvement is embodied, first, in an attachment for the scale-pan or packagein the ar superimposed The guard is preferabl in the nature of a transarent plate on w ich concentric circles are lnscribed indicating different zones. By shiftin the map, any particular town or area ma be broughty to thecenter of the pan and t e guard, yand thus the scale may'be conveniently made to apply to any shiftable map an a particular town or unit of area.

The details of construction, arrangement, andy operationy ofthe device are as herein-v after described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in whichl Figure 1 is a side View of the scale as a. whole. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the scale beam. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on tire line 3--3 of Fig.v 1. an enlarged plan view of the pan or platform provided with the map of the United States, and a transparent plate covering the same and inscribed with concentric circles indicating parcel-post zones. Fig. 5 is an enlarged face view of the smaller Weight or poise. Fig. l5 is anfenlarged transverse section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4. y

In Fig. Leiste pan or platform A is supported upon 4itlie shorter arm of a beam B, which is pivoted at b in the usual way, the

latter being supported by a hollow post C' having an enla rged base D. The pan A is fiat and upon it is supported a map ofthe United States, the same being indicated by E in' F ig. 6. Upon ther map is placed a Celluloid or other transparent plate F, the same being inscribed in concentric circles indicating the different parcel-post zones from one toeight,

rovision of a f Fig. 4 is a unitI of area.

Specication ot Letters Patent. Patented Apr, 13, 1915, p y' Applicaties :naa :nay 10,1914. semi massoni. i l

The map E and the transparent late are detachably secured upon the base o the pan or platform A by means of a circular flanged rim G which embraces the edge of the an and is secured by screws g, as indica rin Figs. 4L and 6. hus, as shown, the map is held in this instance duly adjusted for the city of Lincoln as a unit of area', or the oeuf tral point of the zone divisions. Butv if it v f is desired to shift the ma F in the ard plate, the screwsG being removed, t e flanged rim G may be easily detached, thus ermitting the ma it may be shifted to thefleft to allow the city -for another unit of area coincident with t e central openingY 'be shifted 1n anv dlrectio as require Thus in such case of course the left hand por#` tion of the map would project beyond the'A guard or pan and would be cut. oli' before.

or after reattachment ofthe flange Arim G'.

The beam B has two longitudinal divisions separated byv a longitudinal slot Zi.

longitudinal transverse lines into/squares or rectangles in eachof which vis a number inscribed. In the upper longitudinal row of these squares the several numerals progress from one upward, and indicate pounds, while the succeeding rows contain numerals indicating prices per pound for different zones.

Under the numeral 1 in the poundsv row may be seen the numeral 5, -which is the price'per pound for parcel post delivery at any point within'the first or second zone. Thus the numeral 5 in the second row,

lwhich is directly under the numeral 1 in the first row, indicates that the price for shipping one pound in zones 1 and 2 is iive (5) cents, while the numeral 6 inthe next row below indicates that the price for shipment of one pound to any point in the third zone is six (6) cents, etc., it being seven (7) cents for the fourth zone,`eight (8) cents for the fth, nine (9) cents for the sixth, ten (10) cents for the seventh, and twelve (12) centsIor the eighth zone.

yThe upper and larger section isk divided by f y words Y Pounds,

' stood that 'a pound package is nine (9) The sliding weight or poise H has a central vertical slot It in its face througliwhich all ythe numerals which appear in any vertical row on the y beam are visible. On each side of the slot ii, the weight'H is beveled, thus forming opposite faces up'on which are inscribed the Zone, and Cents for convenience in reading the scale.

As indicated in Fig. l, it is to be under- Y package weighing eight pounds is balanced on l the scale-pan, since the Weight H is adjusted so that the numeral 8 appears in the pounds row through the slot It. It is, therefore, to be understood that, for the first zone, the postage for the eight.

r cents, for the second zone it is ten (l0) cents, and. for the third lit is twenty (20) cents,`and so on. Similarly, any other package whose weight is within the prescribed limit be placed on the pan A and the weight H-adjusted along the beam Where it balances lthe package, the number of pounds and the postage for any zone may be reid through the slot in the face. The similar weight or poise H which slides on the lower, narrower, inscribed section of the beam, as shown 'in Fig. l, is provided with a slot like the larger weight H and its face is inscribed with the words Ounces, Letters, Newspapers, and Cents as shown in Fig. 5r Thus-through the slot in the smaller weight H may be read the weight in ounces and the amountv of postage required for letters and the amount of postage required for newspapers. This portion o the invention, to wit, the provision .of the lower section of .weightAthereon is a greatv convenience for weighing letters and newspapers and thus adapts the parcel post scale for performing an important Vadditional jfunction.

' permits .weighing in y vfor instance, twelve 12) pounds and four main section of the scale y the .scale B and the. sliding The use of the two vweights H and l-i also v o unds and ounces, as

(4:) ounces.

The'construction 'of the scale permits the 'i correction of'zone of ruling of Postoilice Department by sub sti'tuting/a lnew transparent plate or guard for the old one and a new'beam for the old,

one thereby el'ecting an important economy in that it'prevents losses attendant upon the purchase and use of other scales which have been .made for a similar purpose and which, may be renderedv practicallypworthless by any changes in I great advantage of-thescale is the saving in time by reason able to'any unit oi, a sary for ,the iopeiat map if make rate sheet. l .i

In the blank space shown onv the scale B which extends beyond the twenty pound limit in all zones be inscribed the rules commonly applying; to

Government rules. The

of the map being ladjusteavso that it is unnecess. r, to inspect. any .otluer' any-'reference to any list or distances and rates in case titll after the rst, there, will i the parcelrpostsystem, together with in'-' structions for the use of the scala l claim:-

i fro .In a weighing scale of the type indicated,

a pan or packagersupport"hffving'a slihitable` u inap of the United States supported thereon;

guard plate superimposed. f

and a transparent and inscribed with concentric circles indi eating parcel-post zones, and a anged applied to and upon the edges ofthe pt, the map, and the guard plate, andA detach"-l ably secured to the pan, as described. v if escasa s. Jus'rica.

y. Witnesses: y

J. F. HATCH, R. W. Comms. 

